- Gli Asolani
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name = Gli Asolani
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author =Pietro Bembo
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country =Venice
language = Italian
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subject = Love
genre =Dialogue
publisher =Aldus Manutius
pub_date = 1505
media_type = Print
pages ="Gli Asolani" (the people of
Asolo ) are dialogues in 3 books written between1497 and1504 Kidwell, page 101] byPietro Bembo in the language ofPetrarch [Kidwell, page 100] and comprise his first important work. Although he had shown a copy toLucrezia Borgia in 1503, the first edition from1505 was published by Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius), and the second edition was published, after various revisions, in1530 .They concern a dialogue on love that is supposed to have happened atAsolo near the court of Caterina Cornaro (Catherine Cornaro).Kidwell, page 99]tructure and personages
* Libro I - Perottino: the unfortunate lover who expresses love's negativity via psychophysiological analyses - playing on the words "amore" (love) and "amare" (bitter) "he argues that love is bitter, that all love causes bitterness, and that all bitterness proceeds from love" [Kidwell, page 102]
* Libro II - Gismondo: the fortunate lover who refutes Perottino's thesis by expounding love's positivity [Kidwell, pages 104-106]
* Libro III - Lavinello: who refutes both Perottino and Gismondo [Kidwell, page 107] by supporting the theory ofPlatonic love - contemplating the beautiful ideal present in earthly things; Kidwell summarises this as "In short, good love is that which one can enjoy eternally and bad that which condemns us eternally to grief" [Kidwell, page 109]Notes and references
*cite book| title=Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal| author=Carol Kidwell| isbn=0773527095| date=2004| publisher=
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